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Cell-based medicinal products: grant rejected, paper published 26 June 2020
Cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) belong to an innovative and heterogeneous group of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
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How Leiden's drug pioneers have switched to Covid research 22 June 2020
From studying molecules in the blood of corona patients to developing a new concept for vaccines. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)...
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Gerard van Westen appointed as full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Medicinal Chemistry 19 June 2020
Gerard van Westen has been appointed full Professor or Artificial Intelligence and Medicinal Chemistry. This chair has been jointly created by the Lei...
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Master student Maddalena Centanni awarded with Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize 18 June 2020
Former masterstudent Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Maddalena Centanni will be awarded the 2020 Arenberg Coimbra Prize for Erasmus Students. Centanni spe...
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Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen wants to cross boundaries 16 June 2020
Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and drug development. For the new chair in Artificial Intel...
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Teacher of the year 2019 Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd is always ready to answer questions 15 June 2020
Last January, the education assessors of the different study associations chose Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Resear...
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Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grant 10 June 2020
Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use th...
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New professor of Biotherapeutics Delivery at LACDR 29 May 2020
Matthias Barz has been appointed full Professor of Biotherapeutics Delivery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR).
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Probing the secret forces of pericytes 28 May 2020
Leiden researchers found a way to measure the tiny forces exerted by pericytes, one of the most elusive, hard to research cell types, which occur in t...
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Finding unique drug structures with artificial intelligence and chemistry 26 May 2020
In the search for new medicines against diseases such as cancer, a Leiden team has developed a new workflow. This approach combines artificial intelli...
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More efficient drug development with the help of computer models 19 May 2020
The coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of ...
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COVID-19 Research and Education at Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research 18 May 2020
Since the start of the Corona crisis, several COVID-19 related research and teaching projects were started at LACDR. The computational and teaching ac...
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Predicting and preventing serious COVID-19 symptoms 07 May 2020
Scientists in Leiden are looking for signals in blood samples to predict whether patients will develop serious COVID-19 symptoms or not. Based on that...
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Successful start of e-learning skills platform in Brightspace 29 April 2020
For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average stud...
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Ad IJzerman wins prestigious Nauta Pharmacochemistry Award 22 April 2020
Professor of Pharmacochemistry Ad IJzerman has won the Nauta Award for his years of research into signal processing proteins that are interesting for ...